Just so that it's handy again: 


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From left to right:
1 - Engine
2 - Tender Car
3 - Express Car
4 - Passenger Car
5 & 6 - Freight
7 - Caboose

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Billy and Finny both have good positions where the would-be train robbers have a difficult time seeing them.  Both Mr. Arthur Charles and the happy-go-lucky conductor (Smiley) are back here as well and each have gotten down on the floor just in front of the last seat.  Arthur is on the side with Billy and Smiley is on the side with Finney.  

Smiley's happy expression is gone and he looks pale as a ghost, pressing himself to the floor. 

Arthur is obviously frightened as well, but not as frozen as the conductor.  "I am surrounded by barbarians..." Billy might hear him mutter.  

One of the bandits, a shorter figure riding a brown and white pinto steed, upon seeing the fellow in front take a bullet to the chest, fires a shot in the general direction of the back door of the passenger car then backs off slightly... not as confident as a moment earlier.

"Shit!  How damn many guards are there!?" one of the bandits (the one that Sergio recognized as Fred Linch) yelled.  They're getting more resistance than they bargained for. 

Misti, Taylor, & Sergio head toward the front of the passenger car. The aisle is only comfortably wide enough for 1 person at a time.  Misti gets to the door first.  With Taylor hot on his heels.  

Zeke seemed shaken out of his stupor as Sergio grabbed him.  "You gonna shoot 'em?" he asked without any hint of being upset by that idea. 

[i]Crack![/i]  The guard who had his rifle pointed out the frontmost window, literally standing over the woman with the baby, cries out as a bullet strikes him through the forearm.  He curses something terrible as he retreats down to the floor, clutching his injured arm.

Bobby and Sparrow have brought their horses up beside the little platform at the back of the express car.  The Navajo man grabs hold of the railing and makes the transfer from saddle to train with surprising ease.  Bobby, still in his saddle, points his revolver toward the passenger car door...